do you have nice pictures/ artwork in your house?

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other than that whih the children produce i mean!
if so, what of?

I have one painting in my front room that i bought from an artist on Brighton sea fron (underneath Burger king)

other than that i just have the odd print and lots of photo's of my kids and family.

But i do have the first painting my Ds ever bought home from school mounted and framed in my living room.

i have a nice painting that my friend did in the living room of frogs on top of each other. ikea rubber ducks up the stairs and a few of dp's baseball card collages

I have a lovely painting of steeple from glasgow university ,bought it at burrel collection.
Have an artists poster (Kim Parker) framed above fireplace.
Naff ikea prints in kitchen.

we are fond of art in this house - lots of prints and the like - quite a bit of colourful modern art (Rothko, Kandinsky, Klee) and some other prints we've picked up over time.

unfortunately, neither dh or I have got around to hanging them properly so most of the pictures are sitting against the walls ggrrr

the other prints I love are old photos of London and the old Railway poster adverts from the '20s-'40s

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We seem to have a sea theme going on bought from laines in Brighton & photo's dh took of Ross-shire (also pics family pics)

what about this,for a bedroom maybe/

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My husband and I are very fond of oils and have a very nice collection. I collect mostly still lifes and portraits and he enjoys landscapes.

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I have a large, framed original photo of a bluebell wood which I'm very fond of in my front room. I also have some 'green man' sculptures, some tree paintings and a metal dragonfly sculpture. So I suppose there is a vague 'natural world' vibe thing going on.
Trouble is, I can't do the 'buy a picture cos it matches the decor' thing so the other pictures don't go and I think my front room lakcs a certain something...
One day I will get round to hanging them in groups, with frames whcih 'go' like you're supposed to.

I love pictures of the sea and would like to start a collection, but we've so little room

It is a bit cheesy and commercial Cheery but art is subjective and you should go for what you like.

I have a Dali print - The Meditative Rose - but I'm getting a bit bored of it now so might replace it.

i love art and have a lot. and 'pieces' bits of sculpture and the like!

thanks paula, opinion appreciated

we have quite a lot actually - and we rotate them when we get bored

Living room has batiks from Uganda and a beautiful print of Southerndown (wedding present from PIL)
Hall has pen-and-ink landscape by DH's cousin (wedding present again)
Stairs/landing have charcoal landscapes from Nepal
Spare room has an abstract acrylic from Prague and a thangka.

Also have a three-aperture photo frame with arty b/w shots of the first three places we lived together - Canterbury with cathedral etc, Oxford w dreaming spires and, um, Clapton Pond w a no.38 bus...

I have a couple of prints by an artist friend, lots of Guardian posters (thank you southeastastra - did the biccies arrive?), a few theatre/bookshop/Goethe Institute posters and lots of photos - mostly of ds and our wedding but one of a fountain in Berlin that I took myself and am very proud of. Also the copy of my D.Phil certificate that had 4 or 5 spelling mistakes in the thesis title - people think I'm a horrendous poser until they read it and appreciate the comedy value

I have recently purchased (ostensibly for DP's Christmas present) a rather nice lino print featuring a naked lady reclining on top of an elephant.

we have quite a lot. mainly prints, some original artwork. Some bits by friends.

but no money for frames

can't do the thing where you co-ordinate artwork with your sofa cushions, eeeew.

I have one big picture in my front room. Its just cream and brown coloured paint splats in a brown frame.
It was done on new years day 2006, we traced our hands onto pieces of paper cut them out and then splatted paint over them, them removed the hand prints, to leave the outline.
Does match the sofa and the cushions coz I used the paint that had been used in the front room!

Filly, you could always buy the cheap unfinished frames from Ikea (think they're called Ram, about £3 for a 50x70cm) and use tester pots to paint them the right colour for the contents as a temporary solution.
They're polycarbonate glazed not glass so they're dead light to hang.

so, where can i buy something nice to hang in my bedroom?
any suggestions?

Dh bouht me a lovely canvas one, it's red and got different tings onit. Like that makes any sense!!
But it si nice.
it was from a local shop. Think it's nice to look locally and buy stuff that's not mass produced.

We have quite a lot of photo type images up, as dh does photography as a hobby. Lovely ones of the girls, and osme of places we've been.

And we got a framed print from a frioend for our wedding.

Please tell me people don't buy things to co-ordinate with the sofa cushions.

Come to that our sofa doesn't co-ordinate with the sofa cushions.